iText 5 PDF - How to add text and images in small sized page using PDFTable

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Maven Dependency



 com.itextpdf
 itextpdf
 5.5.11

SmallTable.java

package com.javatutorialcorner.itextpdf;

import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Element;
import com.itextpdf.text.Font;
import com.itextpdf.text.Font.FontFamily;
import com.itextpdf.text.Image;
import com.itextpdf.text.Phrase;
import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.Barcode128;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPCell;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

public class SmallTable {
 public static final String DEST = "C:/JTC/SmallTable.pdf";
 
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        File file = new File(DEST);
        file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
        new SmallTable().createPdf(DEST);
    }
    public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        Rectangle small = new Rectangle(290,100);
        Font smallfont = new Font(FontFamily.HELVETICA, 10);
        Document document = new Document(small, 5, 5, 5, 5);
        PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
        document.open();
        PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(2);
        table.setTotalWidth(new float[]{ 160, 120 });
        table.setLockedWidth(true);
        PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
        // first row
        PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Some text here"));
        cell.setFixedHeight(30);
        cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
        cell.setColspan(2);
        table.addCell(cell);
        // second row
        cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Some more text", smallfont));
        cell.setFixedHeight(30);
        cell.setVerticalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE);
        cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
        table.addCell(cell);
        Barcode128 code128 = new Barcode128();
        code128.setCode("14785236987541");
        code128.setCodeType(Barcode128.CODE128);
        Image code128Image = code128.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null);
        cell = new PdfPCell(code128Image, true);
        cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
        cell.setFixedHeight(30);
        table.addCell(cell);
        // third row
        table.addCell(cell);
        cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("and something else here", smallfont));
        cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
        cell.setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_RIGHT);
        table.addCell(cell);
        document.add(table);
        document.close();
    }
}

Output